Daily Teessider

Tweet So why do we kiss? The most important and obvious reason why we kiss is that it facilitates reproduction. Women, who according to studies place more emphasis and importance on a kiss, use the mouth-to-mouth moment as a way to judge the taste of the tongue, lips and saliva to see if she is [...]

Tweet A SHOCKING number of women are risking sexual infection by relying on the morning-after pill as their regular contraception. Research found 250,000 UK women aged 18 to 35 took the emergency pill to prevent unwanted pregnancy three times or more in 2010 and one in five took it once. Experts fear many wrongly believe [...]

Tweet Recent studies indicate that children who inhale second-hand smoke are more likely to have mental health problems, and adults are more likely to have hearing loss. With a smoking ban protecting people from passive smoking at work and on the town, doctors are concerned that people in the North East are being lulled into [...]

Tweet New research has revealed that unhealthy lifestyles are fuelling a premature ageing epidemic with the average woman looking more than four years older than their actual age. Despite many of us wanting to look 10 years younger, an alarming survey shows we are not helping ourselves to stay youthful. According to a poll of [...]

Tweet In Hartlepool 20.4% of people aged over 50 are causing concern because they are in poor health, are isolated and living on a low income. The figures for Middlesbrough are 18% and 17.9% for Redcar and Cleveland. Middlesbrough Council estimates that there are presently 43,000 over-50s in the borough rising to more than 50,000 [...]

Tweet Three-quarters of Britons want smoking in cars carrying children to be banned, according to a poll. Many doctors already support such a ban. Professor Steve Field, chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners, last week caused controversy when he said that parents who smoked in front of their young children were “committing a [...]

Tweet More than 200 managers and administrators face redundancy in a huge shake-up of the NHS across Teesside, the proposed savings are due to take effect from April 2011. NHS North East said it hoped to avoid significant compulsory job losses. Union leaders expressed concern at the planned cuts, arguing managers carried out “important NHS [...]